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It’s a wrap! Many thanks to the Organisers at the University of Insubria for this year’s ICHoLLT! It’s been a great event, and a true pleasure to attend so many inspiring paper presentations!

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A sociolinguistic historicisation of foreign language teaching – International seminar at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 8 January 2024 Earlier this year, prof. Luciana Pedrazzini, the co-founder (with prof. Andrea Nava) of the Italy ELT Archive, and principal investigator in the project, was invited to give a[...]

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Read about the invited talk given by prof. Luciana Pedrazzini (our PI) at the international seminar "A sociolinguistic historicisation of foreign language teaching" held in Barcelona on 8 January!
italy-elt-archive.unimi.it/a-sociolingu...

The Makerere Report is one of those frequently cited documents that most only know indirectly (e.g. through criticism in R. Phillipson’s Linguistic Imperialism).

Huge thanks to @richardsmithelt.bsky.social for making the full document available in the ELT Archive ⬇️

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

I really like this new book by David B. Wilson for its fresh approach to the history of english language teaching via 'literary TEFLing' www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-.... You can read sample pages here: www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pd...

Journée d'étude internationale "Langues et histoire: Un dialogue interdisciplinaire" (26-27/08/2025), sur les liens entre langues et histoire, avec des perspectives croisées en sociolinguistique, anthropologie, didactique et histoire.
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APPEL Colloque SIHFLES 28-29 mai 2026 (Prague) - « Nationalismes et enseignement des langues : le cas du français langue étrangère en Europe et dans le monde (1780-1950) »
Soumission des résumés: sihfles2026@ff.jcu.cz avant le 31 octobre 2025.
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Oh hello! The Henry Sweet Society is now on BlueSky✨ Come one, come all!

Continúa M. Luisa De la Rosa Reimúndez (U. Complutense) hablando de la recepción del método Alge para la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras en la prensa española de inicios del XX
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Cierra la primera franja Mariángeles García Aranda (U. Computense) con “De nuevo sobre la prensa histórica y los métodos de enseñanza de lenguas: Pelayo Vizuete Picón y Rafael Díaz de la Cortina”
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Title page of Linguarum Duodecim, 1538

Guillaume Postel's Linguarum Duodecim promises an Introduction to the alphabets of 12 languages, but can you name those printed on the title page?

A collection of Starter Packs related to languages, language learning, polyglots, linguistics, multilingualism and everything in between.

If you are passionate about languages or just curious to explore, this is the space for you!

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Just published: _Paul Passy: Un linguiste révolutionnaire_ by Jacques Durand and Chantal Lyche @hiphilangsci.bsky.social
@holltnet.bsky.social Passy (1859–1940) founded the International Phonetic Association (IPA) and was a leader of language teaching reform
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

Cutting from the Radio Times showing Walter and Connie

Delighted that Archive on 4: Do You Speak English? is a Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Week. So many World Service gems uncovered including China’s Follow Me. Radio 4, Saturday at 20:00

Warwick ELT Archive page warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r... - information about English by TV programmes (1960s–1980s), and links to YouTube videos

If you're in the UK, there is a radio documentary (11.1.25) – #DoYouSpeakEnglish? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - about BBC English by radio and TV

A new blog-post from the Warwick ELT Archive, by Yi Zhang, who, with Xi Li, has been leading in the compilation of these bibliographies and the catalogue of a developing collection of Chinese textbooks for English: blogs.warwick.ac.uk/elt_archive/...

Warwick ELT Archive December newsletter – 2024 in review! blogs.warwick.ac.uk/files/elt_ar...

Just realized I did not have an image highlighting the marginal annotations (and the worming, of course).

Who knew that practicing Latin grammar might be the key to family harmony on #Thanksgiving? Percival Leigh has helpful hints to ensure 'relatives agree' in his illustrated Comic Latin Grammar (London, 1840).

No correction feature for my big goof—I meant to say voice not tense. :-(

Schoolroom scene from James Hutchinson's The Juvenile Grammar for the use of Schools and Private Families (London: Wright, Simpkin, and Co., 1859).

Anyone know how common it is to see copies of Lily's Grammar interleaved and annotated in this way? A quick search reveals a few other 17th- and 18th-century examples. @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social, any thoughts?

Graphically manipulated detail image of the cover of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”

…struggling against knowledge-hungry moths and specters of a repeating past in Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967):

"...a wise Catalonian had a bookstore where there was a Sanskrit primer, which would be eaten by the moths within six years if he did not hurry to buy it."

In HMS Surprise, Stephen has a "Fort William grammar," which I suspect is this book:

A wonderful, likely Italian, 13th-century Latin grammar fragment. The author remains unidentified, but the text reflects Priscian's influence and references Aristotelian ideas. Once part of the Marvin L. Colker Collection, it was sold at auction recently and is now in a private collection.

Pues mira, de esa misma obra.
Échale un ojo a la página de Richard Hudson, xq hay cosas… 🥰

A cactus-shaped sentence diagram shown in a detail from a 19th century book page.

El mismo año en que se publicó el libro de Barrett, James Brown estaba cultivando su propio cactus gramatical en "An English Syntithology, Book 1" (Philadelphia: Grubb & Razer, 1845), 70.

Árboles gramaticales

Barrett, S. (1845). The Principles of Grammar: Being a compendious treatise on the languages, English, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish, & French. Cambridge: Metcalf.

[visto en dickhudson.com/grammar-usa/ Gracias a @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social]

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Call for papers for a panel on “Bilingual lexicography (1500–2000): labelling, variation, and standardization”. Henry Sweet Society Colloquium, Sept 3-5 2025, Reims.
Deadline for abstracts is Jan 31, 2025.
hss-2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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If you'd like to read my 100-page thesis about Esperanto and its political history, check it out here!

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Galí, A. (1931). Lliçons de llenguatge. Primer grau. Segona Part. Barcelona:
Editorial Pedagògica de l’Associació Protectora de l’Ensenyança
Catalana, p. 7
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